On 12/02/2010 08:38 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: > Someone else noticed that nagios is generating a ton of minor page > faults, and curious if that's normal and if that could be causing some > of the latency in the checks?
define "a ton" $ /usr/bin/time php -r 'echo "marsipulami\n";' marsipulami 0.01user 0.01system 0:00.09elapsed 34%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 29104maxresident)k 10208inputs+0outputs (70major+1962minor)pagefaults 0swaps That's with a reasonably simple program, and it generates 70 major and 1962 minor pagefaults. > I've also got a tmpfs setup for the > status.dat and the checkresults directory to ease some of the disk i/o > since we're on a san-backed vm host. > That's good, although if you're using a virtual system you'll never know for sure if you're really using a ramdisk or not, since the host system might well use swap to store the ramdisk anyway. > I turned off embedded perl this morning and our latency has been holding > at< 10 seconds so far, so that seemed to help a lot. > Neat. Did it affect your pagefaults? If so, how? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null